Well, it is the Guardian leaving rather than being banned. If they think the site is unbalanced, then they’ve just made it worse.

> If they think the site is unbalanced, then they’ve just made it worse.

Great point, and I think that's totally true. However, an organisation has to make the judgement call between staying on a failing (as they see it) platform in an attempt to rescue it, and leaving for an alternative that is less flawed. Clearly the Guardian thinks they stand little chance in affecting X in any meaningful way.

Musk claims a lot of things. Amplifying right wing propaganda and conspiracy theories, often from his own twitter account, is not politically neutral.

It's not even amplified just from his account but the site itself. Create a new account and follow something like sports or entertainment.. then see what floods your feed. I logged in first time today, and it's quite shocking actually. Not a single left leaning account, just all maga that outnumbers the sports or whatever you clicked as interests.

Is it even strange, considering that elections just happened and who’s gonna be the new president?

At least it provides some entertainment in seeing conspiracy theories I'd never heard of. Just now Twitter showed me a tweet about how offshore wind energy projects will lead to the rapid extinction of Right whales.

Apparently this is going to be the Trump administration's justification for trying to kill offshore wind power.

Of course as is par for the course the people who actually study and work with Right whales say that theory is wrong and there is little evidence of serious harm to the whales from such projects.

Exactly, that's my point. The Guardian makes no claims to be politically neutral.

X is hundreds of millions of people so it’s hard to claim it’s anything

X refers to the company itself, not every user. And by extension naturally it should refer to the algorithms developed by the company.

The algos are public information so if there was bias it seems like it’d be fairly straightforward to show it

> Musk has claimed that X is politically neutral

And if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-modifies-twitter-cod...